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People: Famous People born in 1873

People in chronological context: 1873 (MDCCCLXXIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Monday of the Julian calendar, the 1873rd year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 873rd year of the 2nd millennium, the 73rd year of the 19th century, and the 4th year of the 1870s decade. As of the start of 1873, the Gregorian calendar was 12 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923. ()

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Wilbur Mack(† 90)

Actor | Binghampton, New York (US)

Wilbur Mack (born George Frear Runyon, 29 July 1873 – 13 March 1964) was an American film actor and early vaudeville performer from the 1920s through the 1960s. His film acting career began during the silent film era.

Known for: Redheads on Parade, Larceny on the Air
* 07/29/1873

Louis Feuillade(† 52)

Crew | Lunel, Hérault (FR)

Louis Feuillade was a prolific and prominent French film director from the silent era. Between 1906 and 1924 he directed over 630 films.

Known for: The Vampires or, The Arch Criminals of Paris, Barrabas, The Two Girls
* 02/19/1873

Arthur Hoyt(† 79)

Actor | Georgetown, Colorado (US)

Arthur Hoyt (March 19, 1874 – January 4, 1953) was an American film character actor who appeared in more than 275 films in his 34-year film career, about a third of them silent films.

Known for: It Happened One Night, The Lost World, Red Haired Alibi, Seven Days' Leave
* 03/19/1873

Izumi Kyōka(† 65)

Crew | Kanazawa, Ishikawa Prefecture (JP)

Izumi Kyōka (泉 鏡花 Izumi Kyōka, 4 November 1873 – 7 September 1939), real name Izumi Kyōtarō (泉 鏡太郎 Izumi Kyōtarō), is the pen name of a Japanese author of novels, short stories, and kabuki plays who was active during the prewar period.Kyōka's writing differed greatly from that of the naturalist writers who dominated the literary scene at the time. Many of Kyōka's works are surrealist critiques of society. He is best known for a characteristic brand of Romanticism preferring tales of the supernatural heavily influenced by works of the earlier Edo period in Japanese arts and letters, which he tempered with his own personal vision of aesthetics and art in the modern age.-- Wikipedia.

Known for: The Genealogy of Women, Bridge of Japan, Onna keizu, The Romance of Yushima
* 11/04/1873

Gertrud Arnold(† 57)

Actress | Stolp (DE)

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Known for: Die Nibelungen: Siegfried, Die Nibelungen: Kriemhild's Revenge
* 03/03/1873

Blanche Friderici(† 60)

Actress | Brooklyn [now in New York City], New York (US)

Blanche Friderici was a noted American stage and screen actress, her film career beginning in 1920. She is probably best remembered for her roles in Night Nurse (1931), A Farewell to Arms (1932), and Flying Down to Rio (1933). Although today typically indicated to have been born on 21 January 1878, Friderici's actual birth date was 12 September 1873, per multiple reliable records (including her Brooklyn, New York birth record) from throughout her lifetime.

Known for: It Happened One Night, Sadie Thompson, Secrets, The Cat Creeps
* 09/12/1873

Theodore Lorch(† 74)

Actor | Springfield, Illinois (US)

Theodore Lorch (September 29, 1873 – November 12, 1947) was an American film actor. He appeared in more than 140 films between 1908 and 1947.

Known for: The Last of the Mohicans, Half-Wits Holiday, Ginsberg the Great, If a Body Meets a Body
* 09/28/1873

Louis Payne(† 80)

Actor

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Known for: The Only Thing, As Man Desires, The Last Edition, The Blind Goddess
* 1873

Sidney Olcott(† 76)

Crew | Toronto, Ontario (CA)

John Sidney Olcott was a Canadian-born film producer, director, actor and screenwriter. After making a number of very successful films for the Kalem studio, including "Ben Hur" (1907) with its dramatic chariot race scene, Olcott became the company's president and was rewarded with one share of its stock.

Known for: For Ireland's Sake, Monsieur Beaucaire, The Seven Sisters
* 09/20/1873

Colette(† 81)

Crew | Saint-Sauveur-en-Puisaye, Yonne (FR)

Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette (French: [sidɔni ɡabʁijɛl kɔlɛt]; 28 January 1873 – 3 August 1954), known mononymously as Colette, was a French author and woman of letters. She was also a mime, actress, and journalist. Colette is best known in the English-speaking world for her 1944 novella Gigi, which was the basis for the 1958 film and the 1973 stage production of the same name. Her short story collection The Tendrils of the Vine is also famous in France.

Known for: Gigi, Chéri, Matinee Theater
* 01/28/1873

Max Reinhardt(† 70)

Actor | Baden (AT)

Max Reinhardt, born Maximilian Goldmann, was an Austrian-born theatre and film director, intendant, and theatrical producer. With his innovative stage productions, he is regarded as one of the most prominent directors of German-language theatre in the early 20th century.

Known for: Sumurûn, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Die Insel der Seligen, A Venetian Night
* 09/09/1873

Robert Wiene(† 65)

Crew | Breslau, Silesia, Germany [now Wroclaw, Dolnoslaskie, Poland]

Robert Wiene was a film director of the German silent cinema. He is particularly known for directing the German silent film The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari and a succession of other expressionist films. Wiene also directed a variety of other films of varying styles and genres. Following the Nazi rise to power in Germany, Wiene fled into exile.

Known for: The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, Das wandernde Licht, The Knight of the Rose, Prosecutor Hallers
* 04/27/1873
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Vera Lewis(† 82)

Actress | New York City, New York (US)

Vera Lewis (June 10, 1873 – February 8, 1956) was an American film and stage actress, beginning in the silent film era. She appeared in more than 180 films from 1915 to 1947. She was married to actor Ralph Lewis.

Known for: The Roaring Twenties, Betty in Search of a Thrill, Four Daughters, Lombardi, Ltd.
* 06/10/1873

Mabel Colcord(† 78)

Actress | San Francisco, California (US)

Mabel Colcord was an American actress who was born in San Francisco on August 13, 1873. She acted in over 30 films throughout her career, and is best known for her roles in Little Women, David Copperfield, and The Great O'Malley. Active mostly in the 1930s, she mostly played minor or uncredited roles as older women such as aunts, cooks, maids and neighbors. Colcord died on June 6, 1952, in Los Angeles at the age of 78.

Known for: David Copperfield, Little Women, Three Married Men, The Great O'Malley
* 08/13/1873

Adolph Zukor(† 103)

Crew | Ricse, Austria-Hungary [now Hungary]

Adolph Zukor (Hungarian: Czukor Adolf; January 7, 1873 – June 10, 1976) was a Hungarian-American film producer best known as one of the three founders of Paramount Pictures. He produced one of America's first feature-length films, The Prisoner of Zenda, in 1913.

Known for: Sullivan's Travels, Beau Geste, The Legion of the Condemned, Innocents of Paris
* 01/07/1873

Ford Madox Ford(† 65)

Crew | London Borough of Merton / Merton (GB)

Ford Madox Ford (né Joseph Leopold Ford Hermann Madox Hueffer ( HEF-ər); 17 December 1873 – 26 June 1939) was an English novelist, poet, critic and editor whose journals The English Review and The Transatlantic Review were important in the development of early 20th-century English and American literature. Ford is now remembered for his novels The Good Soldier (1915), the Parade's End tetralogy (1924–1928) and The Fifth Queen trilogy (1906–1908). The Good Soldier is frequently included among the great literature of the 20th century, including the Modern Library 100 Best Novels, The Observer′s "100 Greatest Novels of All Time", and The Guardian′s "1000 novels everyone must read".

Known for: Parade's End, The Road to Romance, Theatre 625
* 12/17/1873

Julius Urgiss(† 74)

Crew | Anklam (DE)

German screenwriter and film critic.

Known for: Schlagende Wetter, Arme Lena, Das Licht am Fenster
* 08/06/1873

John Philliber(† 71)

Actor | Elkhart (US)

John Philliber (July 6, 1873 – November 6, 1944), was an American actor. Born in Elkhart, Indiana, Philliber was a stage actor for most of his career, but in his last year of life made several appearances in films, alluding to his old age, best remembered for his role as 'Pop Benson' in René Clair's classic fantasy comedy It Happened Tomorrow. He died in his hometown of Elkhart aged 71.

Known for: Double Indemnity, It Happened Tomorrow, A Lady Takes a Chance, Summer Storm
* 07/06/1873

Charles Wellesley(† 72)

Actor | Dublin (IE)

Charles Wellesley (November 17, 1873 – July 24, 1946) was an Irish-born American actor of the silent era. He appeared in more than 80 films between 1913 and 1928. He was born in Dublin and died in Amityville, New York.

Known for: The Wolf Man, The Lost World, The Secret Kingdom, The Acquittal
* 11/17/1873

Arthur Hurley(† 68)

Crew | Haverhill, Massachusetts (US)

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Known for: Die Königsloge
* 04/13/1873

Otto A. Harbach(† 89)

Crew | Salt Lake City / Salt Lake (US)

Otto Abels Harbach, born Otto Abels Hauerbach (August 18, 1873 – January 24, 1963) was an American lyricist and librettist of nearly 50 musical comedies and operettas. Harbach collaborated as lyricist or librettist with many of the leading Broadway composers of the early 20th century, including Jerome Kern, Louis Hirsch, Herbert Stothart, Vincent Youmans, George Gershwin, and Sigmund Romberg. Harbach believed that music, lyrics, and story should be closely connected, and, as Oscar Hammerstein II's mentor, he encouraged Hammerstein to write musicals in this manner. Harbach is considered one of the first great Broadway lyricists, and he helped raise the status of the lyricist in an age more concerned with music, spectacle, and stars. Some of his more famous lyrics are "Smoke Gets in Your Eyes", "Indian Love Call" and "Cuddle up a Little Closer, Lovey Mine".

Known for: Payback, Four Weddings and a Funeral, American Graffiti, Mars Attacks!
* 08/18/1873

Lilian Braithwaite(† 75)

Actress | Ramsgate, Kent, England (GB)

Dame Florence Lilian Braithwaite (9 March 1873 – 17 September 1948) was an English actress, primarily of the stage, although she appeared in both silent and talkie films.

Known for: Downhill
* 03/09/1873

James Harcourt(† 77)

Actor
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James Harcourt (20 April 1873 – 18 February 1951) was an English character actor. Harcourt was born in Headingley, Leeds, West Riding of Yorkshire. He started work as a cabinet maker, and drifted into amateur dramatics. He appeared as a stage actor first in 1903 and worked with the Liverpool Repertory Company from 1919 to 1931, and was with the Old Vic in the mid 1940s. In 1947, Harcourt appeared in the original West End production of the popular musical Bless the Bride, directed by Wendy Toye. He was married to the actress Isadora Keith, and was the father of camera operator and cinematographer David Harcourt. He died in Eton, Buckinghamshire on 18 February 1951 aged 77.

Known for: Hobson's Choice, Night Train to Munich, Laburnum Grove, Wings over Africa
* 04/20/1873

Henrik Malberg(† 84)

Actor | Aarhus (DK)

Henrik Malberg (1873–1958) was a Danish actor of theater and Danish cinema who played his most noted role at the age of 80—the stoic authoritative farm owner in the Carl Theodor Dreyer classic film Ordet.

Known for: Kobberbryllup, The Vicar of Vejlby, Det Største i Verden
* 12/04/1873

Walter C. Reed(† 70)

Actor

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* 1873

Lee Willard(† 67)

Actor | Peoria, Illinois (US)

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Known for: Sophie's Fatal Wedding, The Calling of Jim Barton, Broncho Billy -- Favorite
* 06/13/1873

Billy Fay(151)

Actor

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Known for: The Dangerous Moment, Two Moons, Luke's Newsie Knockout
* 1873

Joseph De Grasse(† 67)

Crew | Bathurst, New Brunswick (CA)

Most famous for his work directing with his wife Ida May Park.

Known for: Pay Me!, A Doll's House, The Hidden Way, The Grasp of Greed
* 05/04/1873

Léon Arvel(† 83)

Actor | Paris / City of Light (PAR) (FR)

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Known for: Un mauvais garçon, Diary of a Country Priest, La Chanson du Souvenir, Le Bonheur
* 04/29/1873

Cissy Fitzgerald(† 68)

Actress | England (GB)

Cissy Fitzgerald (born Mary Kate Kipping; 1 February 1873 – 10 May 1941) was an English-American vaudeville actress, dancer, and singer who appeared in numerous silent and sound films. Fitzgerald acted in a popular Gaiety Girl show beginning in 1894 and was filmed in the role in 1896 in a self-titled short film shot by Thomas Edison's film company. She did not appear in films again until 1914 where she signed with the Vitagraph company and was quite popular in feature films and her own series of Cissy short films. Very little of Fitzgerald's silent material survives except her comic backup role in the 1928 Lon Chaney vehicle Laugh, Clown, Laugh. Fitzgerald claimed to have been the first woman in motion pictures, on 50 feet of film at the Edison labs in New Jersey in 1896. However, Annabelle Whitford had been filmed in 1894 by Edison engineer W. K. L. Dickson and the Lumières in France were shooting motion pictures, including men and women coming and going from a factory, by 1896. Fitzgerald married Oliver Mark Tucker and had two children, a son and a daughter.

Known for: The Painted Angel, Flirtation, Babbitt
* 02/01/1873
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